Sunday, October 20, 2013

The Weekend's Political News

In April we met a couple where the fellow was waiting for a
lung, had the "Bird Fanciers Lung" version of pulmonary fibrosis.
Last Tuesday, saw him working out in rehab, three months past transplant,
looked and did great. Friday night we had dinner with them and some other
folks, two of whom are six months post transplant, another who is waiting the
call, like I am. Pretty encouraging. Of course, you don't get to meet those who
didn't make it. ~Bob

Excerpt: The above video link is to a Culinary Workers of
America Union protest outside the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. Now there's nothing unusual about
unions protesting outside their place of employment. They do it all the time...and
sometimes it is pretty nasty. But I have never seen the level of hatred and the
horrible invectives shouted at Cosmo customers as they entered the hotel.

Arizona cop banned from wearing his uniform at
daughter's school after parents complained about his gun

Excerpt: A police officer in Arizona has been the subject of
controversy after his daughter’s elementary school told him to not wear his
uniform when one the school property. The ban came after parents complained
that the Coolidge police officer, Scott Urkov, had brought his child to EntzElementary School
in Mesa wearing
his uniform and carrying a gun. (The school and homes of the parents who
complained should be declared "Police Free Zones" with no police
response except "good luck" if they get a nut or criminal there.
~Bob)

Excerpt: State welfare officials were very happy when they
hired Suki L. Handly in 2008 as a new employee to help distribute welfare
benefits in the Manchester
regional office. What state officials did not know was that Handly – who was
hired under the administration of former Gov. M. Jodi Rell -- was also a
convicted prostitute with criminal convictions for drug possession and larceny,
according to public records.

Excerpt:
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick was the prototype for Barack Hussein
Obama. He is a product of the same Southside Chicago slums, and was packaged
for mainstream consumption by the same communist-associated leftist,David Axelrod.Weasel Zippersprovides background to the video
below:

Excerpt:
Given this administration’s proclivity for using the arms of the government to
attack those who question, from Tea Party groups to journalists, this can give
one pause. So how do they get away with this, since the “F” in FISA is supposed
to mean “Foreign”, that this type of surveillance is supposed to be limited to
foreigners, and not Americans? It depends on what “is” means… As is noted in
the following video, many of the servers containing the lists are located oversees.
So when the servers transfer that information to the people in the U.S. that is
when the NSA grabs it, because it is from a “foreign server”:

Oh,
no! Governator Schwarzenegger is Back! (And wants to run for President.) By
Courtney O'Brien.

Excerpt:
It is a well-known fact that the al-Qaeda handbook urges its followers to
exploit the West's liberal legal system to sow discord, and the legal actions
brought against the military in the past two years have certainly had the
effect of damaging the morale of our service men and women who, quite apart
from accepting the risks involved in undertaking combat operations, must now
face the prospect of having to justify their actions before a court of law. No wonder Ministers
are cautious about committing ground forces to military action.

A
debt-ceiling hiccup on the way to a 21st-century American world order. By
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Excerpt:
We can all agree that this is no way for an AAA country [like the USA] to run its
affairs, but looking around the world I cannot see a single country of global
importance that runs its affairs well. (In case you cite Germany, let me say
that Germany is being rather badly run, for reasons that will become clear
within a decade, when the verdict is delivered on its failure to fashion a
coherent energy policy, and on its handling of Europe North-South currency
crisis, and indeed on its chronic inability to balance its external accounts,
and its abysmal real wage growth for the last decade.)

Excerpt:
Today’s food banks are not fuelled by the needs of the poor so much as by the
needs of charities and campaigners. I think the main beneficiaries of the
fashion for opening food banks, and for press-releasing these openings to every
media outlet in the land, are the poverty industry rather than the poor. The
poverty industry is made up of those campaigners who depend, for their very
existence, on the idea that there exist hordes of helpless, hapless poor folk –
and so the more these campaigners can fuel that idea, the better.

A: (Daniel
Greenfield):Hope lies
in the individual....in the ordinary people waking up and realizing what's been
done to them....I think that's where the best hope for America--the Tea party
was symptom of that-- and let's hope the wake-up actually happens.

Prominent
British Muslims Warned of Threats from Somalia's Shebab Militants.

Excerpt:
Several prominent British Muslims said police have warned they may be in
danger, after they were named as enemies of Islam in a video purportedly made
by extremists linked to Somalia's
Shebab militants. London's
Metropolitan Police said it was investigating the hour-long film, which was
posted on YouTubeon Wednesdaybut
has since been removed.

Piers
Morgan Whines that he is "Maligned" and "Misunderstood." By
Daniel Greenfield

Excerpt:
With rumors growing that CNN is prepared to dump the disgraced former Daily
Mirror editor over poor performance, Piers Morgan appears to be prepping for a
transition back to work in the UK.
Key to making that transition is convincing people in the UK that he’s a
success in the US, rather than a failure known only for his one-note rants
about gun control. And the Guardian and a friendly pal of his are perfect for
rolling out the new “successful” Piers Morgan.

Excerpt: I have never liked being told that I can’t do
something that I feel is within my rights to do. I have never been a fan of
spiteful people either. When our Government spends our money to close our parks
to force our hand…..I call that spitebul BS. They are simply wasting more of our
money to prove a point and try and play the blame game AGAIN.

Soros-Funded Group
Plans 'Fly-In' To Push House Republicans On Amnesty

Excerpt: The George Soros-funded National Immigration Forum
(NIF) is organizing a “fly-in” of what it calls conservatives from across the
country aimed at lobbying House Republicans for an amnesty bill. According
to USA Today’s immigration beat writer Alan Gomez, NIF is
planning to organize the fly in with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Facebook’s
Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s
Partnership for a New American Economy(See Cloward & Piven Strategy. --JB).

Excerpt: Abrahamson, in fact, is the top recipient of support
from attorneys whose cases reach the Supreme Court, pulling in $188,650 over
the past 11 years, a WisconsinCenter for Investigative Journalism analysis shows. ... Abrahamson, who is usually
associated with the court’s liberal bloc, has proposed that an outside
body determine when justices should withdraw from a case involving a conflict
of interest.

Excerpt: With two convicted killers back in police custody,
authorities have shifted attention to finding out who
made the phony court documents that led to the mistaken inmate releases that
rocked Florida's
judicial system. Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker, both 34, were captured Saturday night
without incident at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn in Panama City Beach,
a tourist area of putt-putt courses and go-kart tracks. Hours earlier, their
families had held a news conference in Orlando, urging them to surrender. (PCB makes
The Guardian in UK….Lifers
set loose x2. --Barb)

Excerpt: So the Saudis, who like to use American soldiers as
mercs in their wars, are pissed. But the tantrum is already revealing. The
Saudis are suddenly trying to act like a great power. (Article claims
“parasitic client state of US”…perhaps controlling US since 09/11. Why else
block all US oil/energy
development? --Barb)

“Our Holy Pilgrimage
will be Complete Once We Have Killed You, Ripped Out Your Hearts and Raped Your
Women.” (Alt Headline: "American Muslims learn
about the Religion of Peace."

Excerpt: A group of Americans visiting Saudi Arabia to
perform Hajj were threatened and attacked earlier this week on Oct. 16 by a
radicalized group of extremists. … During the escape, many of the
group, almost entirely U.S. citizens
and mostly hailing from Dearborn,
Michigan suffered bruises (in one
case, due to an attempted strangulation), concussions, broken bones, and black
eyes. During the attack, the men reportedly shouted “Our [holy pilgrimage] will
be complete once we have killed you, ripped out your hearts and eaten them, and
[then] raped your women.”

Excerpt: After weeks of being vilified by the national media
and White House as a terrorist, racist, and radical
hostage-taker out to destroy the economy, Ted Cruz (R-TX) is receiving the kind of death threats that
are all-too expected after this kind of national demonization campaign. A
person who identifies himself on Twitter as Troy Gilmore, Jr. listed the
Senator's homes address and suggested Cruz be taught a "street wise
lesson." Capitol Police are investigating: The
Hill reported Capitol Police were looking into the post by someone identifying
himself as Troy Gilmore Jr. The tweet, posted early Friday, said,
"Take down Ted Cruz, at his home" and listed Cruz's home address
in Houston,
The Hill reported. (Per article, individual making threat tweets uses “the Twitter
handle @ArmyVet54.” --Barb)

Excerpt: And in February, the Syrian government arrested
al-Qaida’s chief bioweapons expert, Yazid Suffat, as he tried to enter the
country. “The issue of al-Qaida (AQ) acquiring biological weapons has so far
been a remote preoccupation of Western intelligence services,” the report says.
“However, with the Syrian crisis and the potential acquisition of biological
weapons by AQ, the issue is now a clear and present danger.” (Oh, what the
heck. Add it to the multiple-daily aluminum sprayings from the Illuminati….Barb.
say, does The Illuminati have a web site with an application so I can join?
~Bob)

Excerpt: “Research suggests that health care providers’
diagnostic and treatment decisions, as well as their feelings about patients,
are influenced by patients’ race or ethnicity,” the CAP report reads. “Several
studies have shown that racial concordance is substantially and positively
related to patient satisfaction.”… Ultimately,
these taxpayer-funded grants would provide scholarships and loan forgiveness
for minorities so they could provide healthcare services exclusively to their
own race or ethnicity.

As Worries Over the
Power Grid Rise, a Drill Will Simulate a Knockout Blow

Excerpt: One goal of the drill, called GridEx II,
is to explore how governments would react as the loss of the grid crippled the
supply chain for everyday necessities….Preparation for the November drill comes
as Congress is debating laws that could impose new standards to protect the
grid from cyberattacks, but many in the industry, some of whom would like such
rules, doubt that they can pass. The drill is also being planned as
conferences, studies and even works of fiction are raising near-apocalyptic
visions of catastrophes involving the grid. (Straight from the Regime’s version
of Pravda….NYT. Nov 13 and 14, 2013. --Barb)

Excerpt: The media just love a good Christian tear-down. One
of the most recent efforts being promoted right now is by a self-styled
"biblical scholar" named Joseph Atwill, who will be presenting at a
conference this weekend. Atwill, who has no formal theological training and who
declines to call himself an atheist, nonetheless claims that Jesus never
existed but was invented as a form of psychological warfare by the Romans
against the Jews.

Excerpt: This is how to make another gun rally in
gun-friendly Texas stand out: Tell everybody
to bring their rifles and shotguns to the Alamo,
the state’s most popular attraction, which sits downtown in the country’s
seventh-largest city. And be sure to invite the state’s gun-friendliest
politician, who also happens to hold the keys to the historic site. (I'd not
involve the Alamo or Gettysburg
in political issues. Nor the WWII Memorial or IwoMonument,
as Obama did. Creates more division. ~Bob)

Excerpt: Twelve years after 9/11, the U.S. has
changed sides. The Long
War Journal reported on June 29 that the Al Nusrah Front for the People of
the Levant, which is “al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria,”
has “cooperated with Free Syrian Army units to establish sharia, or Islamic
law, in Aleppo and in eastern Syria.” What is
the Free Syrian Army? The "moderates" whom we are training and to
whom we are giving weapons: “the US government is backing the Free
Syrian Army despite the group’s known ties to the Al Nusrah Front.”

Quote

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are
equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. --Horace

Excerpt: Muslims in Pakistan formed
a human shield Sunday at a church in Lahore to protect Christians from
terrorist attacks. … “The terrorists showed us what they do on
Sundays,” said Mohammed Jibran Nasir, organizer of the human-chain protest.
“Here we are showing them what we do on Sundays. We unite.”

Excerpt: Bashe Musse, a Somali Norwegian community leader in
Oslo, said Dhuhulow had become radicalized in
the years before he left Norway.
And another man, who would give only his first name Yussuf, also said a man he
believes was the Norwegian-Somali gunman was associated with "pretty
radical" circles in Norway.

Excerpt: The Islamic State in Iraq
and the Sham (or Levant), has released a series of photographs that show
children training at a camp named after the founder of al Qaeda in Iraq. The
photographs, numbering 18 total, were published on Oct. 17 on the Twitter
account of the al-I'tisaam Media Foundation, an official ISIS media outlet, the
SITE Intelligence Group, which obtained the images, reported.

Excerpt: Politics, Jonah aptly observes, is the art of the
possible, and McConnell had “no good options” when he led the GOP cave-in to all
of President Obama’s demands — a decision that, McConnell insists, was not in
any way influenced by the tidy $3 billion earmark thrown in for one of his pet
Kentucky boondoggles. I agree that we must be realistic about what was
achievable in the Obamacare battle. … Aren’t we also obliged to be realistic
about the options available to the Republicans who took seriously their
campaign promises to do everything within their power — which includes their
constitutional power of the purse — to stop Obamacare?

Excerpt: Their children now, your children tomorrow. The
fully male controlled and run Islamic societies are never far from the worse
savagery imaginable, making their warlord prophet proud. What happened to the
small Shia girl in Syria
who was tied up to the window grills, forced to watch her parents being
brutally murdered, that we reported on a few weeks ago?

63 Cleveland Police Officers Suspended After An
Unarmed Couple Was Shot At 137 Time

Excerpt: Well, the “government shutdown” is finally over. If
you were like me, you were probably wondering how the government can be
considered “shut down” if the NSA is still spying on us, the IRS is still
auditing us, and the President hadn’t been kicked out of HIS house (which, if
you will remember, also sits on federal land). All in all, the shutdown was not
nearly as destructive as we had heard it would be. (Makes my point. Regime
discriminated. Regime threw elderly whites out of the homes they owned on Lake Mead but allowed black POTUS and FLOTUS to
remain in White House, which they do NOT own, but on federal property. --Barb)

Excerpt: These attacks are
especially troubling considering their timing ahead of a massive joint power
grid drill scheduled for next month to include theU.S., Canada and Mexico. The GridEx II grid security exercise set
for November 13-14 will involve FBI antiterrorism units, National Guard,
thousands of utility workers and business executives, as well as government
officials from all three nations to simulate widespread grid takedown
scenarios. More troubling is a sudden talking point shift to the
vulnerability of the U.S. power grid by multiple government officials,
including outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who
recently issued an ‘open letter’ to her
successor warning that a cyber or physical event that takes out
the power grid will occur — stating that it is not a question of
"if" but "when".

Excerpt: An enforcer for hate preacher Anjem Choudary
yesterday admitted joining a ‘Muslim Patrol’ which threatened to enforce sharia
law. Jordan Horner, 19, was a leading member of a vigilante mob that roamed London’s East End
attacking non-Muslims in a campaign against Western culture.

Excerpt: All across the U.S., moose are dying – and
scientists yet don’t know how to save them. Moose populations across swaths of
the U.S. – from
the West Coast to the East Coast, from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River – are declining at an
unprecedented rate, imperiling fragile ecosystems and putting the moose tourism
industry on edge, the New York Times reported. But though scientists have a
long list of culprits – disease; climate change; over-hunting – it’s not clear
just what is causing moose to die in droves. (So the big game hunters kill
a rare, sacred albino moose and pose with it, “as a lesson to others” and offer
to send the hide to the Indians in atonement (featured on The Weather Channel).
Today the moose, tomorrow us. Duh. --Barb. I blame George Bush. ~Bob)

Excerpt: A hidden form of abuse known as “breast ironing”,
in which girls as young as 10 have their chests pounded with hot objects to
disguise the onset of puberty, could be taking place in Britain. The mutilation
is a traditional practice from Cameroon
designed to deter unwanted male attention, pregnancy and rape by delaying the
signs that a girl is becoming a woman. Experts believe that the custom is being
practiced amongst the several thousand Cameroonians now living here.

Excerpt: Charles Perrow, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
from YaleUniversity cautions: “Conditions in
the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the
rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable. The
radiation emitted from all these rods, if they are not continually cool and
kept separate, would require the evacuation of surrounding areas
including Tokyo.
Because of the radiation at the site the 6,375 rods in the common storage pool
could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will
be threatened, for thousands of years.”

CEA asks CERC to
expedite tightening of power grids' frequency. Move comes against the backdrop
of the govt working on integrating Southern electricity Grid with rest of the
country.

Excerpt: "It has been felt that before synchronisation
of NEW grid and SR (Southern Regional) grid, it would be desirable to narrow
down the operating frequency band so as to reduce requirement of balancing
power," Central Electricity Authority (CEA) said in a recent communication to CERC. CEA is the
apex planning body for the power sector while Central Electricity Regulatory
Commission (CERC) is the sectoral regulator…. Such a move would help in
smooth integration and ensure secure operation of the combined grid, it added.
(Oh, no, you all stay interconnected and leave us poor ol Bible totin’
guncarrying, crackers off y’all’s grid, yuh heah? That way when you all go down
together, we won’t be associatin’ with you all. Don’t expedite diddle squat on
account of us. Maybe when the Regime flips the off switch, we won’t be
included….Barb)

The US electrical
grid is still on the verge of collapse a full decade after the 2003 blackout
that thrust 50 million Americans into the dark during the heat of summer. Or at
least that’s the conclusion of a mathematical analysis of the electrical grid that was published in the science
journal Nature Physics on Sunday. The Israeli and US team
said the networks are dependent on certain critical nodes. (Don’t you love
these leaked teasers? From August 2013. Hey, the EBT was a test. --Barb)

Nicolas Maduro Expels
Three US Diplomats
from Venezuela for
Alleged Conspiracy

Excerpt: President Maduro accused these officials of
“meeting with the extreme Venezuela right
to finance actions to sabotage the electricity system and the Venezuelan
economy”. “We’ve been monitoring some officials of the American embassy
in Caracas…I
have the proof [of conspiracy] in my hands,” he added. (From Sept 30. The November
13-14 drill to include US, Canada
and Mexico.
Perhaps Brazil found
something further than Mexico involved?
--Barb)

Payback: Obama Nominates Major Campaign Fundraiser to Head
Homeland Security. By Katie Pavlich

Pay to Play--it's the Chicago Way. ~Bob. Excerpt: Now that
former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is on the west coast
fulfilling her new duties as the president of the University of California,
President Obama has nominated major
campaign donor Jeh Johnson to take her place. Federal campaign
finance records show that over the past decade, Johnson has contributed more
than $100,000 to Democratic candidates and groups.

U.S. debt jumps a record $328 billion — tops
$17 trillion for first time

Excerpt: U.S.
debt jumped a record $328 billion on Thursday, the
first day the federal government was able to borrow money under the deal
President Obama and Congress sealed
this week. (The collapse is coming. ~Bob)

Excerpt: Can Barack Hussein Obama ever get out in front and
lead, without tripping over himself? Just as he poisoned the well with
Republicans by ramming through a wasteful stimulus bill, poisoned it further
with ramming Obamacare down America's throat, Obama has again sparked a new
political war with his pick for the next Secretary of Homeland Security. As Obama plots to
grant amnesty to 30 million illegal Mexicans you would think he would at least
put up a good front and nominate someone for Homeland Security who would
espouse to be a "border hawk". Quite the contrary; Obama has trotted
out Jeh Johnson, White House insider, and lawyer specializing in liberal social
reform.

Excerpt: Yesterday, a Pennsylvania
state appellate court vacated the
30-66-year sentence that had been given to Jose Carrasquillo, a man who
initially pleaded guilty to raping an 11-year-old girl, but later tried to change his plea to “not guilty” at his sentencing
hearing. In June of 2009, after a woman turned him down for a date because she
preferred black men, Carrasquillo decided to take “revenge” on black people
by getting high on cocaine and PCP and brutally raping the 11-year-old “in
every way imaginable.”

Excerpt: The budget measure that ended the partial
government shutdown allows for a 1 percent raise for federal employees in
January in addition to providing back pay for those furloughed, according to
two Democratic Maryland senators.(Meanwhile Social Security recipients get
screwed again. --JB) “The promise of a modest pay raise and back pay for
furloughed government employees are good first steps in recognizing the value
of federal workers,” said Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, chairwoman of the Senate
Appropriations Committee in a joint statement with Sen. Ben Cardin.

Troubled Obamacare
website wasn't tested until a week before launch. If you want to know why
the Obamacare Website is a total disaster, read the following
apolitical article. It may not even be fixable.

Excerpt: Federal officials did not permit testing of the
Obamacare healthcare.gov website
or issue final system requirements until four to six days before its Oct. 1
launch, according to an individual with direct knowledge of the project. The
individual, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the troubled
Obamacare website project as suffering from top-level management disarray,
changing systems requirements and recurring delays.

Excerpt:
Obama: “All of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists, and the bloggers, and
the talking heads on radio, and the professional activists who profit from
conflict, and focus on what the majority of Americans sent us here to do,”
Obama continued.